Is one sinful if they refrain from printing and disseminating Islamic knowledge and important topics for people, fearing legal accountability or losing their job, and is this considered concealing knowledge or abandoning enjoining good and forbidding evil if it is limited to speech without printing?
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Preaching to God takes multiple forms, such as delivering sermons, offering admonitions, authoring books, and disseminating publications. If printing is not feasible, one can preach by speaking with people. The punishment for concealing knowledge applies specifically to knowledge that is obligatory to teach, such as teaching Islam to a non-believer or issuing a regarding what is permissible and impermissible. It does not apply to voluntary knowledge or non-religious sciences.
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